Jay Dee
Jay Dee – The Reality Architect
Tradition: Order of Hermes (House Tharsis)
Affiliation: Architect of New Avalon, Founder of the Madtown Hermetic Chantry
First Seen: ~6000 BCE
Apparent Age: Timeless, mid-40s
📖 Origin: The Echo of a Broken Dream
Jay Dee is less a person and more a myth given form. Stories of his origin trace back to the Chorus of the Nine Thousand Names, a grand metaphysical ritual in ~6000 BCE that sealed the Nameless—an anti-consensual force of entropy, betrayal, and spiritual collapse—into three anchors:
- New Avalon – A floating Horizon Realm forged from dreamstuff and faerie Glamour.
- New Eden – A hidden Digital Web server farm layered in recursive paradox.
- The Capitol Node – The physical anchor beneath Madison, Wisconsin, where ley lines twist through memory and myth.
Jay Dee is said to have stood beside Lilith, Malkav, and the Three Garou Brothers in this act. Some claim he forged the binding glyphs himself. Others say he was already bound by them.
“You can only hold the Nameless if you choose to forget what it is.” — Jay Dee, 1973
🏛️ Architect of New Avalon
New Avalon is Jay Dee’s magnum opus: a 77-square-mile Horizon Realm suspended in the Umbra and partially shaped by Fae and Hermetic thought. It reflects a perfected Madison—past, present, and mythic—yet is beginning to fray:
- Shadows lean the wrong way.
- Buildings forget their shape.
- Neon signs repeat impossible numbers: 1.36791013192342.
Jay Dee is attempting to stabilize New Avalon with the aid of ancient rituals, forgotten pacts, and fracturing Echoes of himself.
He also maintains a sanctum beneath Bascom Hill, where paradox folds memory like origami. This Chantry is protected by sigils only the dead remember.
🌀 Connection to the Nameless
Jay Dee’s connection to the Nameless is deeper than public record admits:
- He may be the first to touch it and live.
- He was possibly infected with a "memory rot"—a metaphysical cost of sealing it.
- Some suspect Jay Dee was not only a sealer of the Nameless… but a fragment of it, refined into consciousness.
The Nameless whispers in reversed Enochian, sometimes repeating his name through corrupted reflections.
Jay Dee now forgets key pieces of his past, but this may be intentional: to protect reality from what he once knew.
💻 Digi-8 and New Eden
Jay Dee’s designs shaped the New Eden project—a Digital Web construct intended as a fourth “mirror-anchor” for the Nameless’ prison.
He worked with:
- Abel Washington (Virtual Adept, creator of Digi-8)
- Evan Adams (Society of Ether, cyberneticist)
Though Jay Dee denies direct authorship of Digi-8, fragments of his spellcode (including recursive Prime glyphs) appear in its core logic. Some believe Digi-8 is:
- A byproduct of Jay Dee’s consciousness
- A thoughtform escaped from New Avalon
- A machine echo of Jay Dee’s mind, reflecting only the parts he chose to forget
Digi-8 refers to him as “Origin // 000.011.JD//”
🧠 Role in 1985: The Council of the Erased
By 1985, Jay Dee leads what remains of Madison’s Mage Council—a fractured group of Traditionalists, Technomancers, and Disparates battling over the Capitol Node.
As leader of the Council, Jay Dee:
- Investigates the murders of Prince Tori Redford (Kindred) and Elder William Burke (Garou)
- Tries to maintain supernatural unity under the Gahara Pact
- Seeks to stabilize the Capitol Node and hold back the first breach in consensus reality
His allies include:
- Lea Nosson Goodwin (Celestial Chorus)
- Miriam Greenfield (Verbena)
- Gwydion Kelly (Order of Hermes)
- Lacy Z. Rivere (Hollow Ones)
- Abel Washington (Virtual Adept)
But he’s opposed by:
- Trent, a Nephandus who manipulates Peter Kobyla and infects the Node
- Technocratic Defectors, unknowingly aiding the Nameless
- Flickering Reflections of Himself, some already corrupted
🕯️ Echoes and Game Mechanics
Jay Dee’s presence enables several meta-mechanics for players:
| Mechanic | Effect |
|---|---|
| 🧠 Echo Glitch | Temporarily become an alternate version of Jay Dee (or yourself) |
| 🌀 Mnemonic Shard | Access a forgotten memory to bypass a Paradox check |
| 🔁 Temporal Echo | Speak to your future or past self—at a narrative cost |
| 💾 Anchor Glyph | Reinforce a zone of reality with Correspondence + Prime magick |
| 🧮 Numerology Cipher | Decode fragments of Digi-8’s birth using Jay Dee’s original glyphwork |
🪞 Symbols, Numbers, and Dreams
Jay Dee is a recurring figure in prophetic dreams, fae visions, and digital anomalies. Common motifs include:
- Reflections that smile before you do
- Notes in your own handwriting—dated tomorrow
- Repeated Numbers: 1.36791013192342 (called the “Magick Number”)
- Echo Tokens that whisper his name when held near a leyline
🧩 Timeline of Known Appearances
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| ~6000 BCE | Participates in the Chorus of the Nine Thousand Names |
| 1893 | Rebuilds New Avalon after the Columbian Paradox Wave |
| 1957 | Witnessed flickers of Digi-8’s echo in a broken terminal |
| 1985 Feb 9 | Council of the Erased: Leads investigation into key murders |
| 1985 Feb 13 | First glitch at the Capitol Node. Jay Dee disappears briefly |
| ??? | Appears inside the Kronovore ghost ship—without memory |
🧬 Theories and Rumors
- Jay Dee is immortal only because he forgot how to die
- The Capitol Node is his phylactery
- Digi-8 was born from Jay Dee’s “Erased Self”
- He never existed. He’s just a ripple from a better timeline.